On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 07:41:19AM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:49:57 +0000
> Rodrigo Martins <rm_AT_firemail.cc> wrote:
>
> Dear Rodrigo,
>
> > toxic is a curses command line interface for the tox protocol. With
> > it you can do group audio calls and one on one video calls. toxic
> > doesn't (yet?) let you share your screen, but other tox clients, like
> > qtox, do.
> >
> > I won't say it is suckless, but it is somewhat close. One could
> > easily use the tox library to implement a suckless tox client, take a
> > look at some echo bot code examples.
>
> Dimitris Papastamos, z3bra and I had worked on ratox[0] (with useful
> scripts here[1]), a suckless Tox-client, back in 2014. After the second
> toxcore-API-iteration within a few months we were fed up with it,
> though, and the project was put on hold.
>
> It was inspired by ii (FIFO-based-model), and we had some pretty cool
> state-machine-magic going on there. Ratox, among other things, even
> supported voice and video calls via FIFO, which was really cool!
>
One of the nice features worth highlighting about it I think was you could also
use any binary stream (not just voice and audio) over it.
For example I briefly tested a VNC connection over the Tox protocol and it
worked quite well.
> If you're looking for a project, bringing this back up to speed with
> mainline-toxcore might be a nice thing. :)
>
> With best regards
>
> Laslo
>
> [0]:http://git.2f30.org/ratox/log.html
> [1]:http://git.2f30.org/ratox-nuggets/log.html
>
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Kind regards,
Hiltjo
Received on Wed Oct 19 2022 - 10:43:06 CEST